BlueHues
Bluelighter
This thread may piss a few people off...but hey!
I'm 36 years old and in my 16 years riding the merry-go-round with heroin, methadone and suboxone I've met a lot of people who have brought up the idea that "Dope preserves you". That is to say, people who use opiates tend to stay looking younger for longer than the average person. Is it all BS? I don't necessarily think so!
Personally, I don't think this is true with everyone, but I have met a lot of dope-fiends who looked a lot younger than they were! I've met some that looked really beat up too, but does anyone else think that this has anything to do with opiates somehow slowing down the aging process?
I noticed it when I was younger meeting people who had been doing dope for a long time, but now I'm 36, and I have to say, I pretty much look exactly the same now as I did when I was 23! My best friend who is the same age as me and started using heroin at the same time, it's pretty much the same story! I get carded for cigarettes all the time still! If I go out and start talking to people who are around my age, they'll say things to me like, "When you're my age....etc"...Then, when I tell them that I'm the same age as them, if not OLDER, it always awkward!....It's like "I'm sorry! You just look so young!"....
What's even worse is when I start talking to a girl in her early 20s and she's smiling and flirting with me.... eventually the conversation turns to age and I tell her how old I am and it's just like....."Oh, ahhh, I had no idea!"....It's awkward and it kinda sucks!....It's almost like when I tell them that I'm 36, it's like I just told them I had a communicable disease or something...It's weird!
In fact, out of everyone I went to school with and still run into, the friends I have that used heroin seemed to have aged considerably better than the people I know who did the "right thing" and lived "normal" lives! Of course, our lives are considerably more unstable, and in no way do I think being a drug addict is preferable, but it is a strange thing.... Maybe actually entering the rat-race of the "real world" is more stressful on you than heroin?! IDK....
The other thing I'll say...... Maybe your "age" has a lot to do with how you carry yourself, and a lot of people who have been doing drugs since they were teenagers and are now 30+. year old adults, have never really grown up! So maybe the immaturity plays just as big of a part in "seeming young"...kind of sad and pathetic in a way maybe....I guess it depends on how you look at it!
If anybody has seen this phenomenon or has a different opinion, or any scientific evidence for or against this theory I'd be interested to hear!
I'm 36 years old and in my 16 years riding the merry-go-round with heroin, methadone and suboxone I've met a lot of people who have brought up the idea that "Dope preserves you". That is to say, people who use opiates tend to stay looking younger for longer than the average person. Is it all BS? I don't necessarily think so!
Personally, I don't think this is true with everyone, but I have met a lot of dope-fiends who looked a lot younger than they were! I've met some that looked really beat up too, but does anyone else think that this has anything to do with opiates somehow slowing down the aging process?
I noticed it when I was younger meeting people who had been doing dope for a long time, but now I'm 36, and I have to say, I pretty much look exactly the same now as I did when I was 23! My best friend who is the same age as me and started using heroin at the same time, it's pretty much the same story! I get carded for cigarettes all the time still! If I go out and start talking to people who are around my age, they'll say things to me like, "When you're my age....etc"...Then, when I tell them that I'm the same age as them, if not OLDER, it always awkward!....It's like "I'm sorry! You just look so young!"....
What's even worse is when I start talking to a girl in her early 20s and she's smiling and flirting with me.... eventually the conversation turns to age and I tell her how old I am and it's just like....."Oh, ahhh, I had no idea!"....It's awkward and it kinda sucks!....It's almost like when I tell them that I'm 36, it's like I just told them I had a communicable disease or something...It's weird!
In fact, out of everyone I went to school with and still run into, the friends I have that used heroin seemed to have aged considerably better than the people I know who did the "right thing" and lived "normal" lives! Of course, our lives are considerably more unstable, and in no way do I think being a drug addict is preferable, but it is a strange thing.... Maybe actually entering the rat-race of the "real world" is more stressful on you than heroin?! IDK....
The other thing I'll say...... Maybe your "age" has a lot to do with how you carry yourself, and a lot of people who have been doing drugs since they were teenagers and are now 30+. year old adults, have never really grown up! So maybe the immaturity plays just as big of a part in "seeming young"...kind of sad and pathetic in a way maybe....I guess it depends on how you look at it!
If anybody has seen this phenomenon or has a different opinion, or any scientific evidence for or against this theory I'd be interested to hear!
